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United States -- Alaska -- Nome (Alaska)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Flowers at Nome, 1923

 Item — Photo box 2: Series 10. [Barcode: 35025041841376]
Identifier: PH001_0301

Mrs. Beeson. Nome, Alaska., 1927

 Item — Photo box 11: Series 10. [Barcode: 35025041841467]
Identifier: PH001_1205

Reef off Nome coast, undated

 Item — Photo box 9: Series 10. [Barcode: 35025041841442]
Identifier: PH001_1091

Reefs near Nome, 1900

 Item — Photo box 9: Series 10. [Barcode: 35025041841442]
Identifier: PH001_1091b

The Ivory Workers Camp. Ivory carvers' camp near Nome, Alaska. Two tents on beach with upturned umiaks behind them., 1927

 Item — Photo box 11: Series 10. [Barcode: 35025041841467]
Identifier: PH001_1248
Abstract

King Islander-Nome, Alaska. They come by sea from King Island-90 miles from Nome-work ivory all summer-go back to the island for winter kill walrus in spring before the ice leaves-get the ivory and return to Nome to carve and sell the ivory.

Dates: 1927

The Old Negro Whaler's of Nome, Alaska. [Woman fishing through ice near Nome. See note.], 1926

 Item — Photo box 9: Series 10. [Barcode: 35025041841442]
Identifier: PH001_1061
Abstract

Catching horn Cod through a hole in the ice-"jigging" thumb with a grapple. There were several negro whalers who had come around the Horn. They made excellent whalemen. Most of them came before 1900. Boats from the Pacific Steam Whaling Co. would meet the

Dates: 1926